Are you exceptionally interested in the governance of migration, integration and diversity processes at the urban level, and specifically in the role of non-governmental institutions in a comparative setting? Is it your ambition to embark on an academic career in an internationally competitive environment? Do you like a challenging job in a dynamic setting?
The
Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is looking for a postdoctoral researcher. We are seeking a social scientist specialized in the combination of migration and urban studies.
The post-doc project is part of a larger comparative project funded by the EU under the Horizon program. The research team is partly based in the University of Amsterdam, partly in Koç University in Istanbul and partly in the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. The postdoc is expected to contribute to joint activities as well.
What are you going to doThe larger project, entitled BROAD-ER, aims at building a Research Excellence Network which will foster interdisciplinary research and education at the nexus of migration and urban studies. It will offer scientific and research management training activities to researchers including research proposal management, key transferable skills (ethical issues, diversity, equity and inclusion, scientific outreach, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, etc.) while addressing research excellence in the project's fields. The training plans will be complemented with mobility activities allowing the establishment of networking structures and increasing the partner's internationalization.
On top of that, three post-doc researchers based at each of the partner universities will carry out interrelated research projects. These projects will examine themes from a multidisciplinary perspective, namely: i) how cities seek autonomy from the central government, adapt to diverse new roles, and develop new policy solutions and capacity-governance building, ii) how cities move towards forming more international, bilateral and multilateral relations with other cities as well as international organizations (city diplomacy), and iii) how actors at the urban level such as business people and community organizers develop new responses to their needs and the challenges they are facing, without involving the urban government therein.
The current post-doc based at UvA is expected to focus on the third theme.
A more extensive program description is available upon request.
TasksYou will be actively contributing to the BROAD-ER program as a whole, to the department and its the program groups, to UvA's interdisciplinary centers such as the Center for Urban Studies (CUS) and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), and so forth.
The post will require you:
- to contribute to the broad and diverse research profile of sociology in Amsterdam by publishing in high-impact journals and with academic publishing houses, and participating in national and international research networks;
- to develop and carry out empirical research at a high academic level, develop international leadership in this field, develop a line of research in collaboration with our partners from the BROAD-ER network, and staff members and other researchers working at the department and the wider Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR);
- to acquire and help to acquire external funding for research (if need be);
- to engage in activities in the public sphere and in other arenas outside academia;
- to carry out organizational and administrative tasks for the wider BROAD-ER project.